Blockbuster Training Video [1989] - Driscoll & Egbert Part 1

[@pauleckert4321]

Damm blockbuster corporate had some good drugs. Damm good

[@delweena]

That’s exactly what I was going to write.

[@MsGigglesluv]

Me: Mom can we have Siskel and Ebert? Mom: We have Siskel and Ebert at home. Siskel and Ebert at home:

[@goback3spaces]

It was interesting watching Blockbuster completely fall apart in Hoboken, NJ. It was the last vid. store in town to fold, and to enter the store in its last days was like visiting a train wreck. You still had ghostly salesclerks mouthing the corporate line, but the selection was horrendous and none of the clerks knew any movie made before the year 2000. To go downstairs to the rental area gave you a feeling of being buried alive. Now the location is an Anthropologie.

[@mr.k6148]

The Siskel and Ebert parody was better than it deserved to be for a job training video. I cant even really make fun of it

[@bradsmith1934]

Haha :-) "I...feel so empty inside!!" 'Pick up some Popcorn over by the Checkout' :P

[@ethansloan]

When he says "You're looking at a sneak preview of his coming attractions," he should have pointed to a poster for Midnight Express :)

[@richardenglish2195]

Fun fact: none of the people featured in this video were actors. Obviously.

[@PK-er6gh]

2:15 totaly thought they were about to get robbed

[@pinbret]

holy crap you guys had to watch this to work there

[@Streetw1s3r]

Heheheh "head cleaner"

[@teoalcantara3603]

Gotta love the posters featured on the movie theater set: "E.T.', "Dirty Dancing", "Betrayed" and "The Color Purple".

[@DOYLERULES69X]

This video is a helpful instructional on how to deal with sketchy black men, and overly dramatic french people.

[@cbgb33]

I work at Blockbusters and I can honestly say the training videos have not gotten much beter but they are less chessy

[@RETROGEMS]

Awww...this is such a nostalgic comment.

[@AquarianNomadic]

Wow this is a time capsule comment!

[@CYOnTheBeat]

Just what was this training you for?

[@Starscream2588]

When my blockbuster was going out of Business I bought all their Transformers G1 tapes Still have them but collection purpose to this day. now I look back was mainly selected episodes of season 1 1984.

[@snakes3425]

Anyone want to bet if Passing Ships was a real movie the audience would be shouting "TURN AROUND YOU IDIOTS" at the screen

[@BobbyDrake2000]

I still have my Blockbuster card in my wallet.

[@Spacemonkey907]

Framed mine. On the wall like a relic.

[@josephfusselman6818]

3:50 caught me off guard 😂

[@fembotprincess1]

Bill Cosby applies to Blockbuster and the crazy Italian guy is the grabber...

[@JazzHands]

Buster: "I sense an opportunity! You should sell Frenchie here something fun, like Grease! Might lift his spirits! And a happy customer, comes back and continues to rent!" Me: "Sir, you should watch Love Story. That oughta lift your spirits." Buster: "What are you doing?! He's already depressed and he'll feel even worse when he watches that chick flick!" Me: "Can't come back if he's dead! LOL!" Manager: "Who's that cackling in the adult section?" (It's me)

[@tonymontana1974]

Wheres 'buster sales' then ??

[@spoton1159]

Oh wow. I didn't know that Tootie from The Facts of Life worked at Blockbuster.

[@mattdavies7398]

Do you like hot fudge sundaes?

[@Spacemonkey907]

My god. I want a how was this produced documentary and a where are they now.

[@hothmandon]

Ok maybe it's because i've been drinking but WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF TRAINING VIDEO IS THIS?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mtd3369]

Sure, Troy Brindle is great as the video store employee in the scene we saw, but what about later in the movie where he turns into Brindlefly and wreaks havoc in the store, spewing acidic saliva all over the customers?!

[@dboy122660]

3:13 Ist that visual part of the Blockbuster training? Was it really necessary? lol

[@nomadcowatbk]

Why did they sell blank tapes, weren't they afraid of people copying the movies?

[@tiamarie6719]

I'm sure that wasn't their intention. They probably sold them so that the customers could record stuff off of T.V., or make home videos.

[@howardsternisbatman]

Protected by Macrovision.

[@kanyon51]

That dude is high as a kite

[@davidhonez8859]

I now know why Blockbuster went out of business. They spent all their profits producing these videos

[@TheGodYouWishYouKnew]

The head cleaner that the cute black girl offers sounds great. Surprised Blockbuster couldn't survive on head cleaners alone.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Was that a smutty joke?

[@AquarianNomadic]

@@jean-lucpicard5510 Who uses the word "smutty" anymore? Are you 70!?

[@kdreamland]

LOL what the??!? how can this be an ACTUAL training video? The first dude looks stoned out of his mind, the second is a freak straight up. And he sees a stuffed character with REWIND written on his forehead. This is certainly weird. OH ok I understand what they are doing here, with the whole Siskell and Ebert parody. Actually a fun and creative way to do so.

[@rudolphg76]

0:29 What are they defiling those newspaper stands?! :O

[@davidhonez8859]

Being a movie critic (even a fake one) is a lonely life.

[@Wingydingy01]

Y'all were selling head cleaner, huh? 👀

[@michaelpout4798]

Lol I wish these were real films

[@jaredwilson5505]

Yes the sad the last time the video store closing down That's right crying almost come to next time

[@theend9258]

"No S*!%!!"

[@rrod555]

Lol. So many things wrong with this video/things that are funny. 1. This video is racist. The black guy is depicted as being shady, loud, and swearing. 2. The "Italian" guy responds sarcastically when the employee tells him he can buy or rent movies. 3. Mascot holds gun in store, yet, no one seems to care. 4. Lol at the people at 9:23 standing so close to each other in line.

[@coolkid57456]

Mascot is rewind from blockbuster kids

[@josephlawson9950]

did the real siskel and ebert see this

[@AquarianNomadic]

The opening is a perfect picture of humanity.

[@mr.sanford8588]

kydrythm Do you like hot fudge sundaes ?

[@holiday197]

This training video is so bad and cringey and yet I find myself compelled to watch Part 2 for nostalgia and because I’m bored.

[@TheLastLineLive]

Wow, is that Don Cheadle? Looks just like him!

[@cakestalker]

Are those two guys in the beginning some sort of "Siskel and Ebert" rip-off?

[@theendofanerror4173]

Yes.

[@mtd3369]

No. Siskel & Ebert were actually a rip-off of Driscoll & Egbert, funnily enough. RIP Jerry & Rodney.

[@AquarianNomadic]

ding ding ding

[@davidhonez8859]

Parody

[@colliric]

Lol at Blockbuster promoting video piracy...... Blank tapes.... Did they think all the people were recording TV with those blanks? instead of just copying the movie they just rented using the spare VCR?

[@gubraths]

colliric We recorded a lot of shows off tv in those says.

[@michaelmartinez280]

There was a copy protection system that made the copy unwatchable

[@mulletboater]

Actually few people did that. This was the age of the masses being intimidated and ignorant about tech. It was probably less than %1 of blank tape buyers who did that. Making a VHS rip was considered a complex operation.

[@KiloByte69]

If you can't beat em, join em!

[@ShiftaelV2]

@@gubraths Yeah, we didn't always have flash drives, and thumb drives, etc. to pira-.. I mean record on, now :D

[@bobblueton]

Couldn't get away with this stuff now a days. Also, blank tapes? It's like they're supporting piracy! Why would they do such a thing? Back in my day, we'd hook up two VCR's and bam, unlimited rentals.

[@missyrose2154]

This training video is weird af

[@8dukesbats4]

wow....i know we all watch these for the cringe but this was just awful lol

[@OldBoy968]

Wow, I have got to hand it to BB for making a pretty creative and fun training video. These things can be such a bore, but this one was pretty funny, intentionally or not. They did a good job of finding people that look like Siskel and Ebert too.